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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Virginia Pye reads from River of Dust\nEvent Url: h
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ver_of_Dust\nEvent Date Begin: 2013-05-10\nEvent Date End: 2013-05-10\n\n'
Virginia Pye's River of Dust is a remarkable novel in the ways that deligh
t me the most: It has a compelling narrative voice\, a dynamic story and a
deep resonance into the universal human condition\, all of which is inext
ricably bound together. This is a major work by a splendid writer.&rdquo\;
--Robert Olen Butler\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author\nOn the windswept pl
ains of northwestern China not long after the Boxer Rebellion\, Mongol ban
dits swoop down upon an American missionary couple and kidnap their small
child. As the Reverend sets out in search of the boy\, he quickly loses hi
mself in the rugged\, corrupt\, drought-stricken countryside populated by
opium dens\, sly nomadic warlords and traveling circuses. Grace\, his youn
g wife\, pregnant with their second child\, takes to her sick bed in the m
ission compound\, where visions of her stolen child and lost husband begin
to beckon to her from across the plains.\nInspired in part by the journal
s of her grandfather\, who was himself an early missionary in China\, Pye
delivers a hypnotic\, emotionally powerful\, spiritually resonant debut th
at is at once both lyrical and dynamic.\nRSVP HERE (Not required\, but hel
ps us keep a seat for you!)\nVIRGINIA PYE received her MFA from Sarah Lawr
ence. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared in The North American R
eview\, The Baltimore\, Review\, Failbetter\, and Tampa Review. River of D
ust is her first novel.
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SUMMARY:Virginia Pye reads from River of Dust
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